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Monographs and Journals

Arthur, Stanly Clisbey. Old families of Louisiana. Baton Rouge : claitor’s Pub. Division, 1971. Reprint. Originally published: New Orleans: Harmanson, 1931. F368 .A25 1971 & SPEC. F368 .A25 ARCH.

Babb, Winston C. “French refugees from Saint Domingue to the Southern United States, 1971-1810.” Thesis (Ph. D.)—University of Virginia, 1954. E184.F8 B26 1954A.

Baiamonte, John V. “Immigrants in rural America : a study of the Italians of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana.” Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1972 (Microfilm)

Bergeron, Arthur W. Boone’s Louisiana Battery : a history & roster. Baton Rouge, La.: Elliott’s Bookshop Press, c1986. E565.7.B66 B47 1986.

Boling, Yvette Guillot. A guide to printed sources for genealogical and historical research in the Louisiana parishes. [Jefferson, La.] : Published in cooperation with the Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society, c1985. F368 .B65 1985.

Boling, Yvette Guillot. A guide to printed sources for genealogical and historical research in the Louisiana parishes : 1991 supplement. Jefferson, La.: Y.G. Boling, c1992. F368 .B652 1992.

Bourquard, Shirlay Chaisson. Early settlers on the Delta : families of St. Bernard, Plaquemines and Orleans Parishes, Louisiana. Arabi, La.: S.C. Bourquard, c1987. F368 .B68 1987.

Bourquard, Shirley Chaisson. Marriage dispensations in the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas, 1786-1803. New Orleans, Polyanthos, 198. F368 .M37 1980.

Brasseaux, Carl A. Creoles of color in the Bayou country. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1994. F380.C87 B73 1994.

Brasseaux, Carl A. The “Foreign French” : nineteenth-century French immigration into Louisiana. Lafayette, La.: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, c1990. 3 vols. F380 .F8 B73 1990.

Brasseaux, Carl A. The Road to Louisiana : the Saint-Domingue refugees, 1792-1809. Lafayette, La.: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1992. F380.H27 R6 1992

Broders, Nell Heaphy. Cumulative subject index of the Louisiana genealogical register, 1954-1975, and cumulative table of contents of the proceedings of the annual Genealogical Institutes, 1958-1975. Baton Rouge, La.: Broders, c1976. F366 .B76

Chauvin, Phillip. Houma Courier Microfilm index : deaths, 1936-1949. [Houma, La.] : Terrebonne Genealogy Society, [1980?]. F368 .C42.

Chauvin, Phillip. Houma Courier microfilm index : deaths, 1950-59. [Houma, La.] : Terrebonne Genealogy Society, [1980?]. F368 .C422.

Conrad, Glenn R. “Gone but not forgotten” : records from south Louisiana cemeteries. Lafayette, La.: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, c1983-. Vol. 1. F368 .C67 1983

Conrad, Glenn R. The first families of Louisiana. Baton Rouge, Claitor’s Pub. Division 1970. 2 vols. F368 .C64.

Davis, Coralie Guarino. United States Daughters of 1812: honor roll of ancestors represented in the Louisiana Society, 1893-1973. New Orleans : s.n.; 1973. E351.6 .D3.

De Verges, Marie Cruzat. American forces at Chalmette; veterans and de[s]cendants of Battle of New Orleans, 1814-1815. [n. p.] Battle of New Orleans 150th Anniversary Committee, Women’s Committee, [1966]. E359.5.L8 D4.

De Ville, Winston. British burials and births on the Gulf Coast : records of the church of England in West Florida, 1768-1770. Ville Platte, La.: [W. De Ville], c1986. F301 .D39 1986.

De Ville, Winston. Louisiana colonials : Soldiers and vagabonds. Mobile, Ala.: W. De Ville, 1963. F368 .D4.

De Ville, Winston. Louisiana soldiers in the American Revolution. Ville Platte, Louisiana : Smith Books, 1991. E263.L8 D48 1991.

De Ville, Winston. The Acadian coast in 1779 : settlers of Cabanocey and La Fourche in the Spanish Province of Louisiana during the American Revolution. Ville Platte, La.: W. De Ville, 1993. F380.A2 D4 1993.

De Ville, Winston. The Territory of Orleans, 1803-1812 : genealogical reference lists from Clarence Edwin Carter’s Territorial papers of the United States : relating to the present state of Louisiana. Ville Platte, La.: W. De Ville, 1987. F368 .T47 1987.

Favrot family. Favrot papers. New Orleans : Louisiana State Museum, 1940-. 13vols. F368. F38.

Finn, John. New Orleans Irish : famine exiles. [Luling, La.: Holy Family Church], 1997. F379.N59 I62 1997.

First settlers of the Louisiana territory : Orleans territory grants from American state papers, class VIII, public lands. Nacogdoches, Tex.: Distributed by Ericson Books ; St. Louis, Mo.: Distributed by Ingmire Publications, [c1983-].2 vols. F368. F55 1983.

Forsyth, Alice D. Louisiana marriage contracts : a compilation of abstracts from records of the Superior Council of Louisiana during the French regime, 1725-1758. New Orleans : Polyanthos, 1980. 2 vols. F368 .F63.

Forsyth, Alice D. Louisiana marriages. New Orleans : Polyanthos, 1977-. F368 .F64 1977.

Gautreau, Henry W. 1830’s pre-emption entries on the backlands of New River, Louisiana, in conflict with the Houmas land claim. [Gonzales, La] : H.W. Gautreau ; Gonzales, La.: East Ascension Geneal. and Historical Society, 1996. SPEC F377. A7 G38 1995.

Hardy, Linell L. Abstract of account information of Freedman’s Savings and Trust New Orleans, Louisiana, 1866-1869. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, c1999. E185.93.L6 H2 1999.

Hebert, Donald J. A guide to church records in Louisiana. Eunice, La.: Hebert, c1975. CD3267 .A1 H4.

Hébert, Donald J. Acadian families in exile, 1785 : and, (Part two) Exiled Acadians, an index. Rayne, La,: Hébert Publications, [1995] F380.A2.H42 1995.

Hebert, Donald J. Index of New Orleans confirmations, 1789-1841. Baton Rouge, La.: Distributed by Claitor’s Publishing Division, [c1984]. F379.N553 A242 1984.

Hebert, Timothy. Acadian-Cajun genealogy step-by-step. Lafayette, La.: Center for Louisiana Studies, Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, 1993. CS31. H47 1993

Index to the archives of Spanish West Florida, 1782-1810. New Orleans : Polyanthos, 1975. F373 .I55.

Libro primero de confirmaciones de esta parroquia de Sn. Luis de la Nueva Orleans : contener folios y de principio al folio 1, consigne hasta g Dios no Senor--ea servido confirmacions [sic]=First book of confirmations of this Parish of St. Louis of New Orleans : containing folios from the beginning up to the present. New Orleans: Genealogical Research Society of New Orleans, c1967. F379.N553 A24 1967.

Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society. Federal census of 1810, territory of Orleans : excluding the Parish of Orleans. Baton Rouge, LA : Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society, [1961]. F374 .L65.

Louisiana marriages, early to 1850. Bountiful, Utah : Heritage Quest : [Precision Indexing], 1999. F368 .L69 1999.

Lowrie, Walter. Early settlers of Louisiana as taken from land claims in the eastern district of the Orleans territory. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, c1986. F368 .E27 1986.

Maduell, Charles R. Federal land grants in the territory of Orleans : the Delta parishes. New Orleans : Polyanthos, 1975. HD211.L8 M3

Maduell, Charles R. Genealogies of Louisiana’s Spanish governors. [New Orleans: Genealogical Research Society of New Orleans, 1978]. F373.Z99 M24.

Maduell, Charles R. The census tables for the French Colony of Louisiana from 1699 through 1732. [S.1.] : Clearfield Co., 1993. F368. M3 1993.

Mayers, Brenda LaGroue. Death notices from Louisiana newspapers. Baker, La.: Folk Finders, c1984-. 4 vols. F368 .M39 1984.

McAvoy, Thomas T. Guide to the Microfilm edition of the records of the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas, 1576-1803. Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Archives, 1967. Microfilm

Mills, Donna Rachal. The first families of Louisiana : an index to Glenn R. Conrad’s 2-volume series of 1970. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Mills Historical Press, 1992. F368 .C662 1992.

Monroe, Joy Broas. United Daughters of the Confederacy, Louisiana Division. Covington, La.: J.B. Monroe, c1985-[1988]. 2 vols. E483.5.L8 M66 1985

Murray, Nicholas Russell. Computer indexed marriage records … Louisiana. Hammond, La.: Hunting for Bears, [1980-]. 6 vols. F368 .M87.

Pierson, Marion John Bennett. Louisiana soldiers in the War of 1812. [Baton Rouge] Louisiana Genealogical and Historical society, 1963. E359.5.L8 P54 1963.

Poret, Ory G. and John Spencer Howell. Louisiana land titles : an inventory of state land office records from the early nineteenth century on file at the State Archives of Louisiana. Ville Platte, La.: Provincial Press, 1998. CD3264 .L68 1998.

Price, John Milton. The Civil War tax in Louisiana, 1865 : based on direct tax assessments of Louisianians. New Orleans : Polyanthos, 1975. F368 .C58 1975.

Redmond, Bruns D’Aunoy. A history of the Louisiana Society, Sons of the American Revolution : the first 100 years and beyond. Lafayette, La.: Louisiana Society, Sons of the American Revolution, c1997. E202.3.L88 R43 1997.

Ricard, Ulysses S. African Americans in Louisiana : selected works along with some genealogical reference. New Orleans: Chicory Society of Afro-Louisiana History and Culture, 1989. E185.Z99 R5 1989.

Rieder, Milton P. New Orleans ship lists. Metairie, La., 1966. 2 vols. F368 .R5 1966

Riffel, Judy.  Genealogical selections from the acts of the Louisiana Legislature, 1804-1879.  La. Col. F368 .R54 2005

Robertson, Billie Earp. Sleeping by the bayous : a history of the cemeteries and tombstone inscriptions of the Houma, Louisiana, area including Gray, Schriever, Bayou Blue and Little Bayou Black. Thibodaux, La.: Nicholls State University, c1982. GT3211.H6 R63

Robichaux, Albert J. Louisiana census and militia lists, 1770-1789. Harvey La.: Dumag Printing, 1973-. 2 vols. F368 .R62.

Tate, Albert J. Baton Rouge & New Feliciana : census reports for Louisiana’s Florida Parishes in 1782, 1786, & 1793. Lafayette, La.: Provincial Press, 2000. F377.F6 T38 2000.

The Favrot family papers : a documentary chronicle of early Louisiana. [New Orleans] : Howard Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane, 1988-. 3 vols. CT274.F38 F38 1988 1 Book

Villere, Sidney Louis. The Canary Islands migration to Louisiana, 1778-1783; the history and passenger lists of the Islenos volunteer recruits and their families. New Orleans, Genealogical Research Society of New Orleans [1971]. F368 .V54 1971 & 1972.

West Robert Cooper. An atlas of Louisiana surnames of French and Spanish origin. Baton Rouge : Geoscience Publications, Louisiana State University, 1986. E184.F8 W46 1986.

Wier, Jerry Johnson. Tumulus of the Army of Northern Virginia, Louisiana Division. [Louisiana?] : J.J Wier, c 1994. E547.N7 W54 1994.

Woolverton, Dalton L. Membership applications to the Louisiana Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm

Woolverton, Dalton L. Index of membership applications to the Louisiana Society of the Sons of the American Revolution: application no. 1 thru no. 2219.1987. E202.3 .W65

Woolverton, Dalton L. Supplemental index of membership applications to the Louisiana Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 1987-1993. New Orleans: D.L. Woolverton, 1993. E203.3 .W652 1993